National Economic Council Chair Laura D'Andrea Tyson will return to UC Berkeley and the Haas School in January as the Class of 1939 Professor of Economics and Business.

"For the past four years, Laura's classroom has included the Cabinet, the Congress, and the American people," said Haas Dean William Hasler. "Her return to Berkeley is wonderful news for both students and faculty."

Tyson, who teaches both doctoral students and undergraduates, received the campus Distinguished Teaching Award in 1982. Author and co-author of several books on international economics and trade, Tyson has been a highly regarded leader of President Clinton's economic team from the earliest days of the administration when she was named as the first woman to chair the Council of Economic Advisors.

Tyson was the first of 12 Berkeley economics and business professors to serve in high positions in economic policy in the Clinton administration; she is the fourth to return to the Haas School.

Her Haas School colleagues who returned after shorter periods of service in Washington are Professors Michael Katz, Carl Shapiro, and David Levine.

Katz served as chief economist to the Federal Communications Commission during the time telecommunications deregulation was being formulated, debated and passed. He was succeeded at the FCC by Joseph Farrell, another Berkeley economist.

Shapiro served for a year as deputy assistant attorney general for economics in the Justice Department's antitrust division. He worked on the investigations into Microsoft, the Microsoft/Intuit merger, and the Union Pacific/Southern Pacific Railroad merger. He followed his Berkeley colleague Richard Gilbert in that post.

Levine was a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers and also worked at the Labor Department's Office of the American Workplace.

One Haas School professor remains in Washington. Federal Reserve Board, Janet Yellen, has been nominated by President Clinton to chair the Council of Economic Advisors.